Dear Me:
Hey, it's me. I know you don't know me at all. That's okay you will spend years looking for me. I know you oh so well, yet still, you often surprise me. You are an interesting one. It's 2008 and I will be 43 years old this year, but for you, it is only 1983 and you are just 18 years old. Your whole life ahead of you. I remember you as this naive young boy with the only dream of getting out of your one horse town. I want you to know that you will realize that dream and so many more.
I want to share somethings with you as you search for your place in the world. I wonder if you would still take that first job after university if you knew you were going to be fired? If you knew that you would get your heart broken a couple of times in addition to breaking a couple of hearts, would you love differently? If you knew that Grandma was going to die before your 25th birthday would you spend more time with her?
You will experience much joy in life. You will experience pain, sadness and darkness as well. I can tell you that you will go through a period when you want to give up. If I could wrap my arms around you tightly and whisper in your ear that it was all going to be okay I would. But you will find your way on your own. You will find a new strength, a new courage and emerge stronger and braver.
You will search for love and happiness and will someday find out that they have always been within you. You will spend too much time looking outside for it before you realize that you have to look inside.
And the mistakes you make. The tears you will shed and the regret you will hold on too. Know my dear friend that one day you will see all your mistakes as wonderful gifts that you will treasure always.
The friends you will make and the friends you will lose. You are a restless spirit and will try many things. That restless spirit will make you feel lost until you realize that that restless spirit will have allowed you to try so many things. You will find yourself living in a big world. The small town boy will be left in the dust. Be open to life's experiences and know when to let go of things that don't work for you.
There is no point worrying about what anyone else is thinking. That will be your hardest lesson. Your life is about you, for you. Hold on to that.
I don't know if we will ever meet. Perhaps one day the past and present will collide and we will celebrate with a night on the town.
I want you to know that I will never forget you. You have given me so much and you don't even know it.
I know I have said a lot in this letter. But please don't change a thing. You will be just fine.
Warmest Regards,
Me
P.S. I love you
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I have to tell you how amazing it read a post like this and to sense how much of an enlighted state you seem to have reached...it's really very inspiring and has motivated me to begin my own blog as a form of cathartic release. Thank-you!
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